On releasing the mouse after resizing the Blender window my system becomes unresponsive and requires a hard restart. Its 100% reproducible and only occurs when I have my second monitor plugged in. When just using the iMac monitor I can resize the Blender window with no problem.
I'm using 2.56.0 r34076. It does not appear to be reproducible in 2.49b r22966.
My system details are:
Model Name: iMac
Model Identifier: iMac8,1
Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo
Processor Speed: 2.4 GHz
Number Of Processors: 1
Total Number Of Cores: 2
L2 Cache: 6 MB
Memory: 4 GB
Bus Speed: 1.07 GHz
Chipset Model: ATI Radeon HD 2400
Type: GPU
Bus: PCIe
PCIe Lane Width: x16
VRAM (Total): 128 MB
Displays:
iMac:
Resolution: 1680 x 1050
Pixel Depth: 32-Bit Color (ARGB8888)
Main Display: Yes
Mirror: Off
Online: Yes
Built-In: Yes
VX2235wm:
Resolution: 1680 x 1050 @ 60 Hz
Pixel Depth: 32-Bit Color (ARGB8888)
Mirror: Off
Online: Yes
Rotation: Supported
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Blergh. Sorry I missed it.
After reading through it, it mentioned if the issue remained in 2.56 to reopen or create a new bug. Would it be better to add additional comments to that case or this one?
Also there was question about whether or not clicking the Zoom or Maximize button would exhibit the same behavior. I confirmed that clicking the Zoom button does cause the system to become unresponsive when the window will actually resize as a result.
So if the Blender window is already taking up an entire screen, clicking the Zoom button will not have any effect. However starting Blender in terminal with parameters --windows-geometry (e.g. blender --window-geometry 0 0 500 500) and then clicking the Zoom button does cause a crash.
Regarding questions of other OpenGL apps causing similar problems, no I have not seen this behavior in other 3D applications using OpenGL.
No this is a new issue:
http://projects.blender.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=25822&group_id=9&atid=231
Since OSX driver updated it crashes. Also reported for other programs...
We are powerless in this case, unfortunately none of our developers uses a similar system, so a bypass or a patch is not quickly being found.
Will move it to the opengl tracker too. We're on it, but we need a developer first...
This seems to be resolved for me some time after the OS X 10.6.7 update. I tried resizing the Blender window in 2.56.0 r34076 and 2.57.0 r36339M and no longer experience crashing.